Connecticut western news., 1887-11-23
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed
 from Many Redundant Columns.
 A whale attacked boat off the coast of Maine and killed Jacob Klock, Neal Olsen and Chris. Johnson.
 The Knights of Labor have given notice that the strike of plantation laborers in Louis jana was not ordered by them, and have noti- fled all members of the order to return to w,rk.
 -Typothete in Chicago positively declines to recognize the Union printers, and there are no signs of settlement.
 Over ], 1,OOO drummers in Texas are await ing the decision of District Court Judge Sa- bin on the constitutionality of the S35 dollar tax now being tested at Galveston in the case of R. B. Stockton.
 A national Labor organ will be established in Philadelphia shortly. Secretary Litchman will be the editor.
 -Tomkinsyille, Ky, was almost totally destroyed by fire. It is supposed to have been started by burglars who robbed the safe of Nelson < Bro. of SIS, 900.
 The Transcontinental Development Com- pany was incorporated at San Francisco. They propose to operate in Mexico. Jesse R. Grant, son of Gen. Grant, is director.
 Forty buildings were burned at Nevada vile, near Central City, Col. Loss about $SO,OOO
 The advance sale of seats for the four performances of the National Opera at Pitts burg, Pa., amounted to ,0O0.
 Harry Flener and two other young men of Hartford, Ky, stopped stopped Peter Bays on . lonely road by way of joke. Bays shot and killed Flener.
 -Chas R. Albred and Joseph Justensen, after bloody encounter with officers in their attempt to rob the bank at Nephi, Utah, were lodged in jail.
 The richest iron ore beds yet discovered in Ohio have been found twelve miles from Springfield, on the farm of Howard Waddle. A gaspipe bomb was found under the steps of the City Hall at St. Joseph, Mo. The Chief of Police has given orders to shoot any Anarchist who resists arrest.
 Dick Bell and William Wallace, two col ored thieves, were given fifty lashes on the bare back at Lancaster, s. c.
 John J. Breslin, the Irish patriot, died in New York. He will be long remembered by his vigorous work as Fenian and a Libera- tor.
 The Knights of Labor have commenced vigorous boycott in the Lehigh and Schuyl- kill anthracite reigons. All merchants and dealers have been notified to stop all dealings with the coal companies or be them selves boycotted.
 The Portland, Me-, Argus prints scheme Of Edward Atkinson, of Boston, to purchase the maritime provinces of Canada for $50, ,OOO- 900,
 A Spiritualistic seance in Boston proved . most lively one for Mrs. Fay, the medium. newspaper had ten young men in the audi ence, one Johnson seized spirit form, and found himself immediately struggling with the athletic medium herself, who bit and scratched like 8 wild woman.
 Anthony Comstock, of New York, the suppressor of the nude, is charged with I,noc oy,l %o,, T newsboy.
 Five negro laborers were killed by dyna- mite blasting on the Nashville and Florence railroad.
 The Executive Committee of the Inte,na- tional Exhibition, to be held at Brussels next year, has extended the time in which entries from the United States can be made to Dec S1. The Executive Committee is about to es- tablish an agency in New York for the c,nve- nience of Americans who may wish to ex- hibit.
 The faculty of the University of Penn sylvania has forbidden the students smoking within the building.
 Forest fires are reported all along the road from Little Rock, Ark, to Memphis Tenn. A syndicate of Northern and English cap- italists will at once build half a mile of docks at Port Royal, and open up railroad communi- cation with Birmingham, Ala.
 A conference of all the religious denom- nations to consider the subject of Sunday ob- servance will be held in Ottawa next month. George H. Pullman, August Belmont, Jr., and other well-known capitalists, visited the iron mines and furnaces of Birmingham, Ala.
 The Canadian-American Legaue entreats those Canadians who have not yet sou ght the privileges of American citizenship to do so at once.
 The steamer Wah Yeung has been destroy Tr.~ 400 passengers arc supposed to have been lost The new four-masted schooner Pocahon- tas was launched at Camden, Me. Her ca- pacity is greater than that of the American clippers famous before the war.
 A dozen families were burned out in Min neapolis, Minn. Loss, S30,0O0.
 In . freight train collision at Averill, Minn., five railroad laborers were killed.
 Justice Kellem, of Winnipeg, has decided the Red River Valley act to be illegal. This settles the fate of the Red River Valley rail- road.
 The lumber output from the Chippeway Valley, Wis, will be $50, OoO, 000 feet for this season, . slight excess over last.
 The Provincial Cabinet Ministers of Que beo will present the Pope with massive gold and silver vessel on the occasion of his jubi- lee.
 A mammoth cave containing thousands of tons of zinc ore has been discovered in the town of Shullsburg, Wis.
 Peter Wright was assassinated in his own house with his family around him, near Jeff erson, Tex. This is the second assassination there within week.
 The schooner A. Boody was wrecked at Port Austin, Mich. The crew were rescued by the life savers after an all night struggle.
 -Ex-S ,nator Stephen w. Dorsey and oth- CTS have had incorporated the new Fl Paso and Northeastern Railroad and Telegraph Company, with capital stock of S30o,o 900.
 A water famine is prevailing at Yandalia H. Farmers have to haul water eight and ter miles for all purposes.
 The Knights of Labor have declared wal upon the Lehigh coal operators who are re- sisting the miners demands for Higher pay,
 Mrs. Sarah Howe, the noted female bank CT, has opened one of her peculiar banks in Chicago.
 fu-iously, furnished Brooklyn N. I. with most brilliant conhagation. One hundred snt fifty horses were burned to deati. The tota losses figure Sl59,0O0.
 William McCreary was shot and killed by Robert McCreary, son of ex-Gov. McCreary, a Richmond, Ky.
 The Buffalo Lounge Manufacturing Com pany's building was burned. Loss, $90, GOO insurance, S65,0OO.
 Thorough investigation hss shown tha the Anarchist Lingg killed himself with gas pipe bomb, and not with Illuminating caI as originally supposed
 --Ying Chang, 8 young Chinese lawyer o New York, was naturalized in tho Court O Common Pleas.
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